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Originally Posted by WhateverDude
There's many different reasons and explanations for depression. There's an irregularity of certain hormones (I think that's the right terminology for dopamine, seratonin, etc) caused by bipolar disorder. There's also other factors, most of which have to do with mental processes. It's easy for someone who's not depressed to roll their eyes and say "get over it". It's very different for the people who actually experience it. Depression is defined as the inability to cope with negative feelings and thoughts. Whether or not you think it's a big deal or if it's worth dwelling on has literally no significance whatsoever and it's harmfully insensitive for people like you to voice those opinions to people who are dealing with depression. As someone who has dealt with depression and has a family/had friends who responded to it in the way you have here I can tell you you're only making things worse.
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you get it.
someone gets it.
that matters to me.
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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
with depression i do understand that it's just some chemical imbalance in the brain but for whatever reason my gut still feels like telling depressed people to just snap out of it cause they're usually depressed over **** that isn't really that big of a deal to me. and even when it is a big deal i feel like there's no sense in dwelling on it..
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it's really a tricky, unforgiving, ****ty thing.
yesterday I was alright. I was productive. I even laughed and smiled most of the day.
today I couldn't get out of bed until... about 5 o'clock. I managed to eat a little and do the dishes.
sometimes during the week, it's really difficult for me to get out of bed. It's difficult for me to maintain energy. Caffeine doesn't always help. It improves my mental state for a couple of hours, at least to the point where I'm productive, but some days I just can't deal with myself anymore for some reason.
but I get out of bed because it makes me money. there's little else that tempting or motivating in a basic way.
Not every day is like that. Sometimes a couple days pass and I'm ok, I can deal, I can talk to people, I'm not bothered by literally every ****ing nuance or seemingly rude glance. I don't think about things I should have forgotten.
I wish I felt like that every day, and I do try!! I try to keep my wits. I try so hard to push myself into whatever might make me happy for a few minutes but sometimes I find it more productive to cry for a while or sleep as long as possible.
strangely I have enough control over myself to not drink or take any strange medicine when I'm sad because I know it'll only make me worse.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
God you're lucky.
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yeah, nothing more "lucky" than telling yourself to go take a shower for 7 hours and only being able to look at yourself in the mirror for a few seconds before deciding you just want to go back to bed.